To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTESYou just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
-
-
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
RENE DESCARTES -
Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTES -
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
RENE DESCARTES -
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
RENE DESCARTES -
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
RENE DESCARTES -
Nothing is made from nothing.
RENE DESCARTES -
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
RENE DESCARTES -
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
RENE DESCARTES -
For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
RENE DESCARTES -
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTES -
With me, everything turns into mathematics.
RENE DESCARTES -
It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
RENE DESCARTES -
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENE DESCARTES -
That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
RENE DESCARTES -
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTES